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...heard from Kurt's brother Kent, who worked in the American Express building across from the Trade Center. Rudy said Kent was fine, so Kurt returned to his duties--at the Pentagon. Within minutes, of course, a second plane would crash into the south tower; a third would hit the Pentagon. Now Rudy and his wife Jacquelyn couldn't reach either son. Rudy, a basketball coach, gamed out grim odds. "There was a good chance I could lose at least...
...call you again. But if not, I want you to have fun. I want you to live your life. I know I'll see you someday." Eight minutes later, after Sweeney made the extemporaneous speech of his life, his plane crashed into the World Trade Center's south tower...
...Last Tuesday his company got the call to go to the World Trade Center. Fire fighter Brandon Gill says someone yelled, "Don't go in there, Paddy!" but Brown called back, "Are you nuts? We've got a job to do!" and rushed up the stairs of the north tower with his men, past the engine companies with their hoses, to look for trapped office workers. Said Gill: "One of the newspapers called him 'the gallant Captain Pat Brown.' That's exactly what he was." --By Ellin Martens...
...documents in a Tampa, Fla., hotel. The case was recovered unharmed, and the FBI declined to press charges. But O'Neill will not be remembered for that anomalous mistake. After the first strike on the Trade Center, it is believed he evacuated his 34th-floor office in the north tower. He made a few calls from the sidewalk--including one to his son to let him know he was unharmed and one to FBI headquarters. Then he went back in to help with the rescue effort. He has not been seen since. --By Josh Tyrangiel/Reported by Benjamin Nugent...
Felipe and Adianes met seven years ago, when they worked together after school at Roy Rogers. They were still working together, at Fuji Bank's offices in the World Trade Center's south tower. They rode the bus together each morning. She would go to the 82nd floor, where she supervised the payroll; he went one floor below, to run the mailroom. One floor can make all the difference...